The Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley

This ground-breaking book represents a paradigm shift in what we thought the human
body and mind were capable of and will give you a blueprint to become a tougher, more
resilient and ultimately better human - whatever the challenge you face.

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Every day, women around the world are
confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a
society embroiled in a cult of female beauty
and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is
constant and all-pervading. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé,
Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages
and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in
literature and the media, in relationships between men and women,
between women and women. With pertinent and intelligent
examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive
obsession.
We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our
overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction,
and the sense that our attention spans are
shrivelling. Still, we rarely make the connection
between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management
problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on
the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks.
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 The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
Black Hole Cinema Club by Steve Cole
There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that's what April's father tells her when his scientific
When Lucas meets his friends at the local cinema - nicknamed 'The Black
research takes them to this remote Arctic outpost for six months. But one endless summer night, April
Hole' - they're excited about the movie marathon ahead. Non-stop action,
meets one. He is starving, lonely and a long way from home. Determined to save him, April begins the
blockbuster special effects and all the snacks they can eat. But as the lights
most important journey of her life...
go down, Lucas, Ash, Maya, Caitlin and Finn watch in disbelief as a jet-black
tidal wave comes crashing out of the cinema screen and the five friends find
themselves swept into an epic adventure.

Secret hideouts. Prehistoric monsters. Lost cities. Impossible missions.

Being the hero of your own film should feel like fun. But as the
cliffhanger scenes they're pitched into become ever more perilous,
Lucas and his friends start to wonder if these movies are really make
believe. Can they save the day before the end credits roll? The fate of
the world might just depend on it...

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KS3 & KS4

The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks by Katie Kirby

Lottie Brooks is 11 3/4 and her life is already officially over - not only is she about to start high
school without any friends or glamorous swooshy hair, she's just discovered she's too flat-chested
to wear A BRA!

She might as well give up now and go into hibernation with her hamsters Sir Barnaby Squeakington
and Fuzzball the Third.
 The Den by Keith Gray The Clockwork Key by Vashti Hardy

Marshall feels the need to escape because things are so tough at home. Mabel and Will Greystone are looking forward to an exciting
Rory is just happy it’s the first day of the summer holidays. While out on holiday with their aunt Lucy, a famous relic hunter in the land
their bikes they stumble across a long-forgotten underground bunker at of Marvolia.
the edge of the woods. This is the den, and going down inside will
Using an ancient map, they are searching for the legendary
stretch their friendship to its limits. There will be rivalry and betrayal,
lost town of Umber, famous for the invention of clockwork,
but can wrecked relationships be saved before the summer has even
which was mysteriously abandoned hundreds of years ago.
begun?
The only other clue they have is a strange old key left behind
by the last inhabitant of the town, but they have no idea what
the key is for.

Also on the hunt for Umber is devious Byron Cogsworth,

desperate for the glory such an important discovery will
bring. Can Mabel, Will and Aunt Lucy find Umber before
him? And what secrets will the clockwork key unlock …?
Dark Flood by Karon Alderman
Everyone knows the history of the famous Heaton
Main coal mine accident - but that's never
interested Archie. Why would he bother about the
past when he's got more than enough to worry
about right now? Like his Granda's health taking a
turn for the worse. And the shifty Robson twins
from across the street deciding they have it in for
him.

With the help of his best-friends Adila and

Kyle, Archie goes on a mission to raise money DYSLEXIA FRIENDLY
for his Granda's recovery while also avoiding
the Robsons at all costs. But when timelines GENERAL FICTION
collide during an unexpected storm, Archie is
pulled more than two-hundred years into the past, KEY STAGE 3 & 4
and into an experience that will change his life
forever. . .
 DYSLEXIA FRIENDLY Drowning in My Bedroom by Steve Cole
Gayla is trapped when floodwater pours into her bedroom in a residential centre for
GENERAL FICTION kids with disabilities. The other children have been evacuated while Gayla waited for
her father, but now the streets around are cut off and she’s all alone with no way out.
KEY STAGE 3 & 4
Junjun’s makeshift shack has been washed away in the flood and he needs to find
medicine for his sister, who’s sick after drinking contaminated water.

At first these two young people seem to have little in common and pity each other,
but as the waters continue to rise, can they find a way to work together to survive …?

Echostar: Is Always Listening by Melinda Salisbury

Ruby Brookes and her best friend Deva have won free
places at the Ash Tree Foundation Performing
Arts Camp over the summer, but only if their
school grades seriously improve. So when
Deva suddenly starts getting high marks in all
their subjects, leaving Ruby behind, she is
confused and jealous.
Northern Soul by Phil Earle
Until she finds out Deva's success is down to
Marv’s fourteen and his life is simple. There's
EchoStar, a new app that's helping her get
football. And his best mate, Jimmy. Perfect.
ahead.
Nothing else matters until a new girl at school
Ruby is desperate to start using it too, but
called Carly crashes into his life. For Marv, it's love
there is much more to EchoStar than she has
at first sight, his emotions flipped upside down, as
imagined. Because EchoStar is always
he knows a girl like Carly will never notice him.
watching and listening …
He needs help – lots of it – but when it
miraculously arrives in the shape of a musical
idol from the past, the path to Carly's heart
proves anything but easy...
 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
On 21 June, 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member GENERAL FICTION
of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and
through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.
KEY STAGE 4 & 5
Instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a
chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been
sentenced to house arrest indefinitely.

While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings
that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance
of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly
discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

He expected nothing. But they gave him everything . . .

Linus Baker leads a quiet life. At forty, he has a tiny house with a devious cat
and his beloved records for company. And at the Department in Charge of The Kite Runner by Khaled
Magical Youth, he's spent many dull years monitoring their orphanages. Hosseini
Then one day, Linus is summoned by Extremely Upper Management and given Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the
a highly classified assignment. He must travel to an orphanage where six local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises
dangerous children reside, including the Antichrist. There, Linus must somehow to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to
determine if they could bring on the end of days. But their guardian, charming Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After
and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, will do anything to protect his wards. As the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir
Arthur and Linus grow ever closer, Linus must choose between duty and his realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban
dreams. rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him:
redemption.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books',
make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best
a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of
friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment,
print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning
they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and
in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out
an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters,
'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julian Carax.
with the words: DON'T PANIC.
But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find.
The weekend has only just begun . . .
Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is
approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from the book, a
character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last
copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary
curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of
Julian Carax and to save those he left behind...

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data,
conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly
they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times,
spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts,
the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular
beauty witnessed in a single day.

GENERAL FICTION Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches
them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on

KEY STAGE 4 & 5 as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and
fearful of its destruction.
 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a

GENERAL FICTION fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son, completes the picture.
But it only takes a bullet to rip them apart.

KEY STAGE 5 In a city in the grip of a drug cartel, friends become enemies overnight, and
Lydia has no choice but to flee with Luca at her side. North for the border...
whatever it takes to stay alive. The journey is dangerous - not only for
them, but for those they encounter along the way. Who can be trusted?
And what sacrifices is Lydia prepared to make.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood,
made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her
father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, A chair, a table, a lamp. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the
destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of shape of a wreath, and in the centre of it a blank space, plastered over,
the Hitler Youth. like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out. There must
have been a chandelier, once. They’ve removed anything you could tie
a rope to.

Offred lives in The Republic of Gilead. To some, it is a utopian vision of

the future, a place of safety, a place where everyone has a purpose, a
function. But The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to
breed.

If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent
out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state
cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on
which her future hangs.
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Before you enter the world of Caraval, you must remember that it’s all a game...

Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems.

Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year, week-long performance where the audience
participates in the show. Caraval is magic, mystery adventure and for Scarlett and her beloved sister Tella it represents freedom and an escape from
their ruthless, abusive father. When Scarlett discovers her father has arranged a marriage for her she believes all her hopes of escape have been
dashed.

Then the sisters' long-awaited invitations to Caraval finally arrive and it seems their dreams have come true. Yet, no sooner have they entered the
confines of Caraval than Tella vanishes, kidnapped by the show's mastermind organiser, Legend.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But nonetheless she quickly becomes enmeshed in
a dangerous game of love, magic and heartbreak. Real or not, she must find Tella before the game is over, and her sister disappears forever.

GENERAL FICTION
SUITABLE FOR KEYSTAGE 3 +

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

She came from nothing.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus
better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.
almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery,
knows why. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports
star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body
They had everything.
Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding
Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's
together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the
filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving
notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again.
relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money.
He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online.
Now there's only one rule: winner takes all.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects. Everyone has
just how far will they go to keep their fortune? secrets, right?

What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2044. The real world is in ruins. Out of oil, the climate destroyed, famine, poverty and disease SUBJECT SPECIFIC FICTION & NON-FICTION
are widespread.

Like almost everyone, Wade Watts has an escape - the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where SUITABLE FOR KEY STAGE 4 +
you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten
thousand planets. And like almost everyone, he's on the hunt for the ultimate lottery ticket that
lies concealed within this alternate reality - control of the OASIS, courtesy of the wish of its now
-dead architect, James Halliday.
Silent Earth—Averting The Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles
are based in the culture of the late 20th century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world
first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot function without them. Drawing on the
race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the
takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will shocking decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades, with
leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed. potentially catastrophic consequences. He passionately argues that we must all learn
to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.
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(SCIENCE)

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh

You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister
show Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an
entire university course.

In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh explains how the brilliant
writers, some of the mathematicians, have smuggled in mathematical jokes throughout the
cartoon’s twenty-five year history, exploring everything from to Mersenne primes, from
Euler’s equation to the unsolved riddle of P vs. NP, from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, and much more.

(MATHS)
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You’re All Talk by Rob Drummond NON-FICTION
Why do we have different accents and where do they
come from? Why do you say ‘tomayto’ and I say SUITABLE FOR KEY STAGE 4 +
‘tomahto’? And is one way of speaking better than
another?

In You’re All Talk, linguist Rob Drummond explores the

Humble Pi by Matt Parker
enormous diversity in our spoken language to reveal
extraordinary insights into how humans operate: how What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously
we perceive (and judge) other people and how we vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class
would like ourselves to be perceived. He investigates leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise,
how and why we automatically associate different what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.
accents with particular social characteristics — degrees
As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer
of friendliness, authority, social class, level of
programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly
education, race, and so on — and how we, consciously
behind the scenes, until ... it
or subconsciously, change the way we speak in order to
doesn't.
create different versions of ourselves to fit different
environments. (MATHS)

(ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

Redhanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer

Tick by Suruthi Bala & Hannah Maguire
What is it about killers, cults, and cannibals that capture our imaginations even as they terrify
and disturb us? How do we carefully consume these cases and what can they teach us about
what makes victims and their murderers our collective responsibility?

RedHanded rejects the outdated narrative of killers as monsters and that a victim 'was just in the
wrong place at the wrong time.' Instead, it dissects the stories of killers in a way that challenges
perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture, and even our
politics.

(CRIMINOLOGY)
 SUBJECT SPECIFIC FICTION & What You Need To Know About AI: A beginner’s guide to what the
future holds by Professor Brian David Johnson
NON-FICTION What actually is AI? Will it take over the world? And one day, will it tidy your
bedroom...?
SUITABLE FOR KEY STAGE 3
In this beginner's guide, learn everything you need to know about AI, from how
it helps us discover epic stuff up in space or under the sea, to whether it might
even help you build your own dinosaur.

(COMPUTING/ICT)

Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in
order to fit in at school.

Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she'll be at home, in the Museum The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works.
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home
Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a
having a chauffeur? wealthy household at the top of the German mountains.
But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second
When Aru's schoolmates dare her to prove that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is
World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the
cursed, she doesn't think there's any harm in lighting it. Little does Aru know that
home of Adolf Hitler.
lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient
demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous
new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to
Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and, accompanied by a wise -
escape.
cracking pigeon and her long-lost half-sister, it's up to Aru to save them.
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